The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s September 15, 2026 order in PGR2025-00067 is a procedural ruling rather than a merits decision, but it still offers useful guidance for practitioners navigating post-grant review. Orders on the conduct of proceedings often shape the practical course of a case—setting expectations on scheduling, briefing, evidentiary disputes, and the parties’ obligations to streamline issues for…
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The Justice Department has taken a notable step on federal firearms enforcement: its Office of Legal Counsel has concluded that the federal restrictions preventing licensed dealers from selling handguns to otherwise law-abiding adults ages 18 to 20 cannot be constitutionally enforced through criminal prosecution. The opinion addresses 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(1) and (c)(1), which have long barred federally licensed firearms…
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Legal AI company Harvey said today that it is launching a dedicated pro bono program in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.In the first phase of the program, the company will work with a selected group of it law firm customers as design partners. Initially, this group consists of senior pro bono leaders at the firms shurst Perkins…
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology, helping fuel the AI industrial revolution. OpenAI and Anthropic are market leaders, with extraordinary private valuations. The prospect of their respective trillion-dollar public company valuations, should their initial public offerings come to fruition, has drawn attention to LLM economics.LLMs are transforming industries including healthcare and the practice of law. They will also…
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I never practiced criminal law. But my son-in-law is a public defender and I’ve learned how hard they work and toil with limited resources. So when I heard about how the New Jersey PD program was using AI to enable 1,300 public defenders across 66 offices search a state PD database of 3,000+ briefs using natural language I was pretty…
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Your goal is to keep AI-driven change from outrunning your capacity to govern, validate, and adapt to it. If you are thinking only about slowing AI down, you are focusing on the wrong problem.During the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, public health officials introduced a concept that quickly entered the common lexicon: “flattening the curve.” The goal…
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If you’ve been hanging out with me since 2017, you know I’ve been tracking the collision of AI and the arts back when ‘AI video’ looked like a surrealist fever dream and ‘AI voice’ sounded like a polite but highly medicated robot. We watched static digital art evolve into generative universes, but today, we are talking about the real engine…
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In this product demonstration with Legal IT Insider, NetDocuments‘ director of legal AI solutions, Brandall Nelson, showcases the new AI-powered Tabular Review capability that was launched in August this year. […]
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Credit Acceptance Corp. has agreed to a sweeping $710 million settlement with 40 states and Washington, D.C., resolving allegations that the company pushed financially vulnerable consumers into unaffordable subprime auto loans and sold deceptive add-on products. The deal includes roughly $634 million in debt cancellation for more than 55,000 borrowers, along with restitution, civil penalties, and changes to the company’s…
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For enterprise legal, investigations, and eDiscovery teams, ephemeral messaging does not make discovery impossible. It changes the timing. When messages can disappear automatically, teams need to know where business conversations occur, preserve relevant information quickly, and document what is no longer available. Waiting until collection starts can leave important context outside the evidentiary record.
Modern enterprise discovery already extends well…
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Legal tech company Clio has long said that its mission is to transform the legal experience for all. Until now, that “all” has largely focused on law firms and their clients, but recently Clio announced a major initiative to develop technology for the judiciary.As part of that initiative, it hired Pablo Arredondo, the former cofounder of Casetext and developer of…
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